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New York Film Festival Adds ‘Paperboy’ to Schedule

By Dave Itzkoff August 21, 2012 12:22 pmAugust 21, 2012 12:22 pm

Lionel Cironneau/Associated PressJohn Cusack and Nicole Kidman at a screening of “The Paperboy” at the Cannes film festival in May.

The New York Film Festival has added “The Paperboy,” a new film directed by Lee Daniels, to its coming roster, and with it a gala tribute to its star Nicole Kidman, the Film Society of Lincoln Center said on Tuesday.

Ms. Kidman, an Academy Award-winner for her portrayal of Virginia Woolf in “The Hours,” appears in “The Paperboy” as a woman who is the fiancée of a death-row inmate (played by John Cusack), and who becomes the romantic fixation of a young man (Zac Efron) while his journalist brother (Matthew McConaughey) investigates the inmate’s case.

In a statement, Richard Peña, the programming director of the film society and chairman of the New York Film Festival’s selection committee, praised Ms. Kidman for her work in films like “To Die For,” “Dogville” and “Eyes Wide Shut,” and for a career in which she “has insisted on finding roles that are complex, bold and demanding.”

Mr. Peña, who is stepping down from his roles at the Film Society of Lincoln Center this year, will also be honored with his own gala tribute at the New York Film Festival. The tribute to Ms. Kidman will be held on Oct. 3 and the tribute to Mr. Peña will take place on Oct. 10. The festival runs from Sept. 28 through Oct. 14.

A version of this article appears in print on 08/22/2012, on page C3 of the NewYork edition with the headline: New York Film Festival Adds ‘The Paperboy’.